Error:Index out of range.must be non negitive and less than the size of the collection.parameter name:index

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I am trying to change width of column in datagridview by adding these lines

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Dim column As DataGridViewColumn = DataGridView1.Columns(0)

           column.Width = 50

But i am getting ERROR:Index out of range.must be non negitive and less than the size of the collection.parameter name:index

can anyone help me plz..

Posted 23-May-11 0:12am

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Karwa_Vivek 23-May-11 6:24am

What you really want to do with this code

Just want to Set the width of column or
whole of the DataGridView

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Karwa_Vivek · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-23T00:46:00

To set the Width of your DataGridView Coulumn
you First need to fill it with the Required Data.If it will not have any data it will surely throw this exception.Set the Datasource of DataGridView First, then add the code to set the width.Also if in your Database table there is no data then also this problem will happen.
Use Try Catch Exception handling to remove this exception.
Also in place of writing the this code in two line you can reduce it to
DataGridView1.Columns(0).width =50
Try this